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CORRIE fans will be able to control their favourite characters - after ITV agreed to turn the show into a computer game.

Bosses have signed a deal with Nintendo to make a game for the Wii console marking the soap's 50th anniversary this year.

It could see Street favourites from the past like Elsie Tanner and Hilda Ogden mixing with current characters such as Rosie Webster and Deirdre Barlow.

Game players could make them move them by waggling hand-held controllers. The format and style of the game will be revealed later this year.

It is one of several products licensed for the anniversary of Corrie's first episode, broadcast on December 9, 1960.

Coronation Street ale, currently sold only in the North, is likely to be rolled out nationwide.

Corrie is also endorsing a range of "Best of British" brands including Imperial Leather soap, Warburtons bread and Typhoo tea, which will all carry a 50th birthday logo.

Massive ad campaigns are planned and viewers will be bombarded with reminders of the anniversary virtually every time they turn on ITV.

The Sun

Sounds like its a bit of a better budgeted one than the DS one xD